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Test ID:1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.52668
Category:Ubuntu Local Security Checks
Title:Ubuntu USN-113-1 (libnet-ssleay-perl)
Summary:NOSUMMARY
Description:Description:

The remote host is missing an update to libnet-ssleay-perl
announced via advisory USN-113-1.

A security issue affects the following Ubuntu releases:

Ubuntu 5.04 (Hoary Hedgehog)

The following packages are affected: libnet-ssleay-perl

Details follow:

Javier Fernandez-Sanguino Pena discovered that this library used the
file /tmp/entropy as a fallback entropy source if a proper source was
not set in the environment variable EGD_PATH. This can potentially
lead to weakened cryptographic operations if an attacker provides a
/tmp/entropy file with known content.

The updated package requires the specification of an entropy source
with EGD_PATH and also requires that the source is a socket (as
opposed to a normal file).

Please note that this only affects systems which have egd installed
from third party sources
egd is not shipped with Ubuntu.

Solution:
The problem can be corrected by upgrading the affected package to version
1.25-1ubuntu0.2. In general, a standard system upgrade is sufficient to effect
the necessary changes.

http://www.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=USN-113-1

Risk factor : Medium

CVSS Score:
4.6

Cross-Ref: BugTraq ID: 13471
Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2005-0106
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/13471
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:023
http://secunia.com/advisories/18639
https://usn.ubuntu.com/113-1/
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